. Anecdotes, poetry, and incidents of the war : North and South : 1860-1865 . Presidential mansion. Slapping the ChiefMagistrate upon the back, he exclaimed : Well,old hoss, how are you P Old Abe, being thor-oughly democratic in his ideas, and withal relish-ing a joke, responded : So Im an old hoss—amI ? What kind of a hoss, pray ? Why, an olddraft hoss, to be sure, was the rejoinder. BARBARITIES OF THE SIOUX. MRS. HURDS NARRATIVE. On the 2d of June, 1862, Mr. Phineas B. Hurd,with another man, left home, at the north end ofSheteck Lake, Minnesota, on a trip to DacotahTerritory, to be absent a
. Anecdotes, poetry, and incidents of the war : North and South : 1860-1865 . Presidential mansion. Slapping the ChiefMagistrate upon the back, he exclaimed : Well,old hoss, how are you P Old Abe, being thor-oughly democratic in his ideas, and withal relish-ing a joke, responded : So Im an old hoss—amI ? What kind of a hoss, pray ? Why, an olddraft hoss, to be sure, was the rejoinder. BARBARITIES OF THE SIOUX. MRS. HURDS NARRATIVE. On the 2d of June, 1862, Mr. Phineas B. Hurd,with another man, left home, at the north end ofSheteck Lake, Minnesota, on a trip to DacotahTerritory, to be absent a month, taking a span ofhorses and wagon, and such other outfit as wouldbe required upon such an expedition, leaving alone with her two children and a , who had charge of the farm. On themorning of the 20th of August, about five oclock,while Mrs. Hurd was milking, some twenty In-dians rode up to the house and dismounted. discovered among the horses one of theirown that was taken away by Mr. Hurd. got into the house before the Indians, who. \i s i ,;Kv w v. t SHERMAN ANECDOTES, POETRY, AND INCIDENTS. 249 entered and began smoking, as was their of these she knew, one being a half-breedwho could speak English. Her children Mere inbed, and, at the time of the entrance of the In-dians, asleep. The youngest, about a year old,awoke and cried, when Mr. Voight took it up andcarried it into the front yard, when one of the In-dians stepped to the door and shot him throughthe body. He fell dead with the child in hisarms. At this signal some ten or fifteen moreIndians and squaws rushed into the house, — theyhaving been concealed near by, — and commencedan indiscriminate destruction of everything in thehouse, breaking open trunks, destroying furni-ture, cutting open feather beds, and scattering thecontents about the house and yard. Mrs. Hurd, in her uncommon energy and in-dustry as a pioneer housewife, had, with a goodstock of cows, begun to
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